It has really enjoyable moments and, as I previously mentioned, a hella good twist, but is marred by some creepy and implausible moments towards the end. THIS IS A SPOILER THAT MIGHT BE WORTH BEING SURPRISED ABOUT IF YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT READING THE NOVEL. However, I can't really go into my traditional in-depth review without spoiling the hell out of it. It's a well-developed surprise that really contributed to my overall enjoyment of this novel. This novel has a pretty significant twist that smacked me right in the face. The novel closes with the dread-filled reminder that true revision of ableist attitudes requires more than horror-even inclusive horror-to overcome fear-inspired stigma.WARNING: SERIOUS SPOILERS AHEAD. The nonlinear narrative highlights a tension between blindness as life-saving and blindness as monstrous.

Despite the significant exposure and punishment of ocularcentrism that the novel presents, its main character struggles to surpass her old, societal judgment of blindness when outside the community that helps her relearn new ways to navigate the world. I argue that this novel pushes the boundaries of ocularcentric thought through both a version of horror independent of visual spectacle and a depiction of a community that thrives by revising attitudes towards visual impairment. This unexplained event introduces blindness as a necessary choice, complicating the dichotomy between blindness and sight by making sight a fatal disability. Creatures roam the earth, the mere sight of which causes immediate insanity, violence, and suicide. Josh Malerman’s 2014 apocalyptic horror novel, Bird Box, reverses Gothic depictions of disability as monstrous or metaphor for ignorance or weakness by presenting disability as protection.

This article also explores the trials and tribulations of the visually challenged people in their day-today lives and it encourages the so called non-disabled to lend helping hands to the disabled when they are in the need of them. This paper aims to throw light on the paradigm of subaltern literature, with a special attention to the disabled community. The significant purpose of literature is to portray how man is able to face the societal challenges and pitfalls and how he strives to find possible solutions to the prevalingproblems. The study of literature is not only the study and evaluation of poems, novels, short stories, and plays, but also the study of ideas, issues and difficulties which arise in the creation and interpretation of them. As literature is a combination of fact and fiction, it covers the imaginative and supernatural or fictional worlds and characters as well. It is indeed true that literature cannot be distinguished from the human beings as it is a mirror of nature. Literature is a vital field which touches every part of the society and is concerned with human values.

Yours Until Dawn by Teresa Medeiros